This recipe for Chocolate Chip Cheesecake recently showed up in my inbox and I nearly dismissed it because it was so short. Both the ingredient list and the instructions, especially for a non-plain cheesecake — seemed too simple!

This would be very easy to make with your own homemade chocolate chip cookie dough — in fact, that’s what I’d do instead of using store bought. Simply make the dough, roll it into a log and wrap in plastic wrap and then cut as directed in the instructions.
Chocolate Chip Cheesecake
from Mr. Food
3 (8-ounce) packages cream cheese, softened
3 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1 teaspoon …read more

Nestle is recalling its popular Toll House refrigerated cookie dough this morning after it received complaints from stricken consumers who ate the dough raw.

The FDA is currently investigating 66 supposed E. coli illnesses across 28 states that are reported to be linked to the raw cookie dough, and 25 of those people have been hospitalized though no one has died.
They’re advising consumers, retailers and restaurateurs who have bought the dough to throw it away. Proper baking of the dough would normally kill any E. coli present, but since the dough was eaten raw that precaution obviously wasn’t followed. …read more

My husband stopped at the store to pick up some milk on the way home from work and caught sight of these teeny little containers of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream. He got one each for our daughters (they were on sale $10 for 10 — the ice cream, not the daughters ), and the girls thought they were the neatest thing ever. He said they also had Cookie Dough and Cherry Garcia available.
They’re 3.6 oz each and even come with a little plastic “scoop” spoon under the lid.

That’s one of my seven year-old’s holding her ice …read more